Pieces of Gold
July 9, 2012 4:48 PM Subscribe
The Aikiu's new music video "Pieces of Gold" cleverly transforms porn actors into... very intense studio musicians.
too bad about the music!
posted by 200burritos at 4:59 PM on July 9, 2012
posted by 200burritos at 4:59 PM on July 9, 2012
What does one do about copyrights in this situation?
(sorry; libido dead, only legalistic now)
posted by DMelanogaster at 5:05 PM on July 9, 2012
(sorry; libido dead, only legalistic now)
posted by DMelanogaster at 5:05 PM on July 9, 2012
Pretty sure all of these works are in the pubic domain.
posted by hermitosis at 5:05 PM on July 9, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by hermitosis at 5:05 PM on July 9, 2012 [2 favorites]
Copyrights for porn work just like copyrights for anything else. In fact, even illegal porn still receives copyright protection in the U.S., at least.
posted by Navelgazer at 5:06 PM on July 9, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by Navelgazer at 5:06 PM on July 9, 2012 [1 favorite]
I've seen all of the heterosexual porn, and I haven't seen these clips.
posted by StickyCarpet at 5:10 PM on July 9, 2012 [4 favorites]
posted by StickyCarpet at 5:10 PM on July 9, 2012 [4 favorites]
Interestingly how much of it comes from apparently vintage gay porn.
Also all the music needs is some feathered hair, shiny pants and angst about nuclear war.
posted by The Whelk at 5:17 PM on July 9, 2012 [1 favorite]
Also all the music needs is some feathered hair, shiny pants and angst about nuclear war.
posted by The Whelk at 5:17 PM on July 9, 2012 [1 favorite]
Copyrights for porn work just like copyrights for anything else.
In partial explanation of my previous comment; some people keep their copyrights up to date and others don't. I was engaged as an expert witness on the side of Vanessa Del Rio. She did keep her copyrights intact. But almost nobody else did, so there was a proliferation of Classic Porn compilations, that included Vanessa Del Rio. My job was to purchase such compilations on or around 42nd Street, keep the receipts, watch them for her appearances, and then report back to her law offices. I got paid $200 an hour for that work. Mainly because I am a seasoned witness, and might have been called to testify. But watching porn was my weirdest well-paid gig.
posted by StickyCarpet at 5:24 PM on July 9, 2012 [17 favorites]
In partial explanation of my previous comment; some people keep their copyrights up to date and others don't. I was engaged as an expert witness on the side of Vanessa Del Rio. She did keep her copyrights intact. But almost nobody else did, so there was a proliferation of Classic Porn compilations, that included Vanessa Del Rio. My job was to purchase such compilations on or around 42nd Street, keep the receipts, watch them for her appearances, and then report back to her law offices. I got paid $200 an hour for that work. Mainly because I am a seasoned witness, and might have been called to testify. But watching porn was my weirdest well-paid gig.
posted by StickyCarpet at 5:24 PM on July 9, 2012 [17 favorites]
But watching porn was my weirdest well-paid gig.
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:24 PM on July 9 [1 favorite +] [!]
Was this around the time you signed up for your MeFi account?
posted by dobbs at 5:32 PM on July 9, 2012 [13 favorites]
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:24 PM on July 9 [1 favorite +] [!]
Was this around the time you signed up for your MeFi account?
posted by dobbs at 5:32 PM on July 9, 2012 [13 favorites]
Not likely. You would indeed have to pay me to watch Vanessa Del Rio in action.
posted by StickyCarpet at 5:34 PM on July 9, 2012
posted by StickyCarpet at 5:34 PM on July 9, 2012
I can't hear anything described as "very intense" without immediately thinking of Mark Gormley.
posted by hot soup girl at 5:36 PM on July 9, 2012 [11 favorites]
posted by hot soup girl at 5:36 PM on July 9, 2012 [11 favorites]
There's a local drummer that my friends refer to as O-face because of his ... intensity ... behind the drums.
Which suddenly makes so much more sense.
posted by jacquilynne at 5:40 PM on July 9, 2012
Which suddenly makes so much more sense.
posted by jacquilynne at 5:40 PM on July 9, 2012
Hot Soup Girl - WHY GODDAMNIT WHY DID YOU DO THAT?
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 5:54 PM on July 9, 2012
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 5:54 PM on July 9, 2012
But watching porn was my weirdest well-paid gig.
posted by StickyCarpet at 7:24 PM on July 9
Ewww. Eponysterical.
posted by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 6:40 PM on July 9, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by StickyCarpet at 7:24 PM on July 9
Ewww. Eponysterical.
posted by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 6:40 PM on July 9, 2012 [2 favorites]
Clever enough, but I guess you have to be when you name your band the I.Q.
posted by psoas at 7:37 PM on July 9, 2012
posted by psoas at 7:37 PM on July 9, 2012
I wonder about all of the actors who did these videos thinking know one they knew would ever see it, and now this youtube video has 300k+ views.
posted by shakespearicles at 8:51 PM on July 9, 2012
posted by shakespearicles at 8:51 PM on July 9, 2012
I wonder about all of the actors who did these videos thinking know one they knew would ever see it, and now this youtube video has 300k+ views.
Most of them probably look a lot different fifteen or twenty years later.
posted by hermitosis at 9:13 PM on July 9, 2012
Most of them probably look a lot different fifteen or twenty years later.
posted by hermitosis at 9:13 PM on July 9, 2012
Best use of split screen ever. Also, this is also the most that anyone watching these videos have ever looked at the actor's faces, I would be guessing.
posted by emjaybee at 9:25 PM on July 9, 2012
posted by emjaybee at 9:25 PM on July 9, 2012
ITYM ewpornysterical.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 10:16 PM on July 9, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by PeterMcDermott at 10:16 PM on July 9, 2012 [1 favorite]
Didn't anyone notice that the singer's teeth need cleaning?
posted by Cranberry at 11:52 PM on July 9, 2012
posted by Cranberry at 11:52 PM on July 9, 2012
This music sounds very much like The Undertones.
That or Fergal Sharkey has returned to make a new decade his bitch.
posted by Mezentian at 12:29 AM on July 10, 2012
That or Fergal Sharkey has returned to make a new decade his bitch.
posted by Mezentian at 12:29 AM on July 10, 2012
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